Disney+ working on Beauty and the Beast prequel

Disney+ is developing a prequel to Beauty and the Beast. They will be joined by Once Upon a Time creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Allegedly the show will see the return of Luke Evans (The Alienist) and Josh Gad (Avenue 5), both of whom featured in the Beauty and the Beast movie. The currently unnamed project will probably, just like the movie, be a musical. Emma Watson and Dan Stevens (Legion) portrayed the main characters in that film, which was released in 2017. Both of them have not yet been linked to the new project, which is in early development.

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Josh Gad and Luke Evans at the premiere of the Beauty and the Beast

Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz will both write the series and serve as showrunners. They made the popular ABC series Once Upon a Time, which contained a lot of Disney and other fairytale characters, including Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Josh Gad will also write parts of the series. Horowitz, Kitsis and Gad have previously worked together on The Muppets, a series that was also produced for Disney+. Unfortunately, that series was cancelled near the end of 2020.